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ConfigServer Firewall LFD Breaks tmpwatch on Linux servers

The issue was that old/stale tmp files are not getting cleaned by tmpwatch. This is because CSF/LFD regularly reads all tmp files scanning for trojans and other exploits, thus changing the ‘last access’ time so tmpwatch wouldn’t delete anything. I wrote a script to manually clean out session that are over 7 days old. Other […]